Statistics

Kevin Drum on data is or data are:
Now, I know that lots…

Edwin Chen, a data scientist at Twitter, explored the geographic differences in language…

The Mitt Romney campaign put this venn diagram up a few days ago,…

The odds of getting pregnant after a certain time trying are surprisingly hard…

The flood. The avalanche. The tsunami. Drowning in data. For the past few…

Hooktheory, a system for learning to write music, analyzed 1,300 popular songs for…

Tips for Grad Students in Statistics. Oh, now they tell me.

In an article for Significance Magazine, economists Barry Reilly, Neil Rickman and Robert…

The newest episode of This American Life is on the game of Blackjack.…

MIT Technology Review profiles the Facebook Data Science Team, described as a gathering…

Many want to get rid of the American Community Survey, a Census program…

After noticing the Obama campaign was sending variations of an email to voters,…

Screw the sword swallowing and giant screen of moving bubbles. Just get Rosling…

Garbage in, garbage out the old adage goes. Nigel Hawkes, Director of Straight…

Robert Groves, director of the U.S. Census Bureau, on the Appropriations Bill:
The…

Princeton history graduate student Benjamin Schmidt explores changes in language through TV anachronisms.…

Jerzy Wieczorek, a statistician with the U.S. Census Bureau, explains why the American…

Last month Republicans were pushing a bill to get rid of the American…

Thanks to the Internet Archive and CNN, thirteen years of transcripts, about a…

I’ve been reading papers on how people learn statistics (and thoughts on teaching…